Comment on Fairphone 5 bricked by faulty Android 15 update
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 7 hours agoThe idea is that there is already a bunch of shit developed for Linux so you aren’t really starting from zero. But yeah, I agree with your overall assessment. No one is going to be making hardware for this.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Yes, this is true, but much of what’s developed for Linux is not intended to be mobile touchscreen friendly- nor is the “normie suite” of typical daily driver apps developed for Linux alone. very few these days even have web frontends that could run in an electron container outside of the linux apk, so it would be difficult to drive software adoption without a huge paradigm shift in consumers.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Agreed. I still have to get into the terminal pretty routinely to do things that don’t have an effective GUI (let alone a touch capable GUI) and that would just be a deal killer for any kind of mass market handheld device. The steam deck is the closest thing that I can think of to something that could sorta be considered a proof of concept for Linux consumer devices and that took a LOT of money to develop and a massive built in revenue stream to support.
If I got a free wish for a new valve product it would probably be for a vertical Gameboy pocket (or even folding Gameboy advanced) sized hand-held steam deck with a sim card and a mic. Probably only about a hundred people would buy it, but I would be one of them.